Regions4 Political Subregions:
North America
Central America
Caribbeans
South America


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Political Map Latin America
Physical Map Latin America
Climate Map Latin America
Vegetation Map Latin America


Formal RegionsNorth AmericaThe North American Region includes only one country and that country is Mexico. Mexico is composed of the Northeast Region, the West & Northwest Regions, the Central Region, and the East/Southeast Regions.
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Central America
Central America is composed of a total of seven countries. They include Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
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Caribbean IslandsThe Caribbean Islands include a large variety of islands. Such islands are Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands
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South AmericaSouth America is a continent and is composed of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
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Functional Regions
This map shows the different climate zones in Latin America. Functional regions are defined by their connections. For functional region maps, certain mediums extend and diminish over a distance. Such, this climate zone map has extreme areas that diminish as they extend further and further out. Thus, this map can be an example of a functional region map. Latin_America_Climates.jpg----
Vernacular RegionsMexicoThis map of Mexico can be defined as a vernacular regional map simply because it depicts different regions within the area using vague terms such as northeast and west. These borderlines are actually often disputed.
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South AmericaThis map of South America shows the vernacular regions of the continent simply with indefinite terms. These borders lines are often a mental picture that we cannot draw out on the ground. Different maps have similar but may have slight changes within this map.
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Cultural Subregions
Mestizo-American
- Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela
Indigenous-American
- Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru
European-American
- Argentina, Uruguay

The above are regions claimed by only a few nations within South America.